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Wow, small world. The owner of that site is my friend on an aquarium forum and lives down here in FL 
Anyways, if you're looking at that thing for dual atty's, the diameter is for aquarium air tubing which is much smaller than an atty. It also has compression fittings built in on both ends. You will have to mod pen grips or something over to aquarium tubing, or mix up some epoxy and form something up. Once you get that far you might as well use straws and DIY it. I can only imagine the compression fittings will collect a lot of liquid and dirt, lots of separate pieces of plastic in there. This is almost the same type of plastic adapter you would use to split a reverse osmosis filter system. As much as I would like to help Orlando make more money, it's not worth it IMHO.
Anyways, if you're looking at that thing for dual atty's, the diameter is for aquarium air tubing which is much smaller than an atty. It also has compression fittings built in on both ends. You will have to mod pen grips or something over to aquarium tubing, or mix up some epoxy and form something up. Once you get that far you might as well use straws and DIY it. I can only imagine the compression fittings will collect a lot of liquid and dirt, lots of separate pieces of plastic in there. This is almost the same type of plastic adapter you would use to split a reverse osmosis filter system. As much as I would like to help Orlando make more money, it's not worth it IMHO.
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Here's a cheaper one with a slightly larger option, really just posting this for comparison, I'm still 90% sure you'll think it's a piece of crap once it starts leaking residual liquid all over your SB.
Aquarium Water | Reverse Osmosis | RODI Water | ReefKeeper Water | Divider Y
Aquarium Water | Reverse Osmosis | RODI Water | ReefKeeper Water | Divider Y
That one looks perfect. Do you know what outside diameter we need from the options on the website ?
PVC is rigid. Your chances finding something with the exact spacing is pretty slim. I'd ask Chad for the center-to-center spacing on the atomizer threads. With that and measuring the diameters of your atomizers you'd know what you're looking for. I also believe that the barrel diameter on different atomizers is different. Even from one type of 510 to another so it would have to have some sort of rubber grommet or something.
A hybrid solution with a hard and soft material solution might be a lot better. Maybe a rigid "Y" like the one pointed to above mated to short pieces of silicon tubing that would in turn mate to the atomizers. In that case you would want the "Y" piece tubing to have a diameter to fit inside the silicon tube "couplers" -- roughly the same size as an atomizer barrel. Choose the diameter of the smallest atomizer barrel you are considering. Relatively thick walled silicon tubing would give you couplers with some rigidity while still able to "stretch" over larger diameter atomizers. The coupler tubing pieces would probably need to be about 1" or longer to have enough to fit over the "Y" ends and have enough to accomodate the stretch over larger atomizers and compensate for a center-to-center measurement on the "Y" piece that is a bit different from the center-to-center measurement between the atomizers. P.S. silicon won't melt or warp with the heat from a hot atomizer barrel.
note: my 901 appears to have a barrel diameter of approximately 3/8"
KR808D seems to be the same.
LR 510 appears to be a bit less than 1mm smaller?
and a regular 510 about 1mm smaller?
801s naturally are huge.
How's that for an idea?
A hybrid solution with a hard and soft material solution might be a lot better. Maybe a rigid "Y" like the one pointed to above mated to short pieces of silicon tubing that would in turn mate to the atomizers. In that case you would want the "Y" piece tubing to have a diameter to fit inside the silicon tube "couplers" -- roughly the same size as an atomizer barrel. Choose the diameter of the smallest atomizer barrel you are considering. Relatively thick walled silicon tubing would give you couplers with some rigidity while still able to "stretch" over larger diameter atomizers. The coupler tubing pieces would probably need to be about 1" or longer to have enough to fit over the "Y" ends and have enough to accomodate the stretch over larger atomizers and compensate for a center-to-center measurement on the "Y" piece that is a bit different from the center-to-center measurement between the atomizers. P.S. silicon won't melt or warp with the heat from a hot atomizer barrel.
note: my 901 appears to have a barrel diameter of approximately 3/8"
KR808D seems to be the same.
LR 510 appears to be a bit less than 1mm smaller?
and a regular 510 about 1mm smaller?
801s naturally are huge.
How's that for an idea?
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I'm the one that posted the first y-pipe mod. It works really well, but it is ugly, and unyieldly.
I think we need something made for the dbsb! Especially since most of us like that smooth, sleek look of our silver bullets!
A great alternative would be to have two matching drip tips cut from delrin. Just machine them so they .... up together when placed on the dbsb!
Here are some idea's that I made VERY fast in M$ paint.
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I think we need something made for the dbsb! Especially since most of us like that smooth, sleek look of our silver bullets!
A great alternative would be to have two matching drip tips cut from delrin. Just machine them so they .... up together when placed on the dbsb!
Here are some idea's that I made VERY fast in M$ paint.
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